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mighty hunter before the Lord” (10:8, 9). Driven by Satan in his rage against God, these nations absorbed the character of their great ancestor Nimrod whose prowess as a hunter is pejoratively mentioned here. All of the later history of these peoples from this region of the world points to Nimrod’s moral character as a hunter of men, not animals. He established an autocratic, imperialistic, despotic system of tyranny that was used often against the Seed of the woman in attempts to eradicate the Promise from Israel’s soil. Nimrod’s rapacious attitude and character became the unifying principle for the men of that region and the events of Genesis 11. The wicked momentum that was gaining in the line of Ham through Nimrod soon consolidated men in those lands politically and in a sense religiously. It started to spread and soon the whole world was drawn to godless
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